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Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game

An outstandingcollection of sports writing by a distinguished sports journalist presents a variety of pieces--first published in GQ, The National, and Esquire--including profiles of such famous personalities as Tiger Woods and Magic Johnson, portraits of lesser known sports figures, and anecdotes and accounts from the world of sports. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Blount (foreword by) and Charles P. Pierce

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Paperback:

9780306810053 | Da Capo Pr, December 27, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An outstandingcollection of sports writing by a distinguished sports journalist presents a variety of pieces--first published in GQ, The National, and Esquire--including profiles of such famous personalities as Tiger Woods and Magic Johnson, portraits of lesser known sports figures, and anecdotes and accounts from the world of sports.

Gladiators: 40 Years of Football

Some 175 stunning full-color and black-and-white images by one of the world's leading sports photographers celebrate the game of football in lyrical and candid portraits of football's greatest players and coaches, studies of fans, and panoramic action shots.

By Blount (compiler) and Walter Iooss

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Hardcover:

9781892129482 | Total Sports, November 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Contains portraits of professional and college football players, coaches, and fans during the game, in locker rooms, celebrating victory, and suffering defeat.

The Quotable Baseball Fanatic

Collects quotes on all aspects of baseball, including batting, pitching, managers, retirement, and owners, from such notables as Yogi Berra, Frank Deford, Casey Stengel, George Will, and Maury Allen.

By Blount (foreword by) and Louis Decimus Rubin (compiler)

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Hardcover:

9781585740123 | 1 edition (Lyons Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Collects quotes on all aspects of baseball, including batting, pitching, managers, retirement, and owners, from such notables as Yogi Berra, Frank Deford, Casey Stengel, George Will, and Maury Allen.

Paperback:

9781592281305 | Lyons Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $9.95

Pretty Good Joke Tape: A Prairie Home Companion : Delight Your Friends and Become the Envy of Your Social Circle!

A compilation of A Prairie Home Companion'spast four joke shows features Garrison Keillor and his guests Roy Blount, Jr. and Paula Poundstone presenting an entertaining mix of knockknocks, oneliners, North Dakota, reigious, animal, bar, and lightbulb jokes, along with the show's trademark 'yo mama' insults. Simultaneous.

By Blount (editor), Garrison Keillor (editor) and Paula Poundstone (editor)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781565113695 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, February 1, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents a compilation of jokes first performed on A Prairie Home Companion radio program's annual joke shows.

Cannibalism in the Cars: The Best of Twain's Humorous Sketches

By Blount (introduced by), Andrew Goodfellow and Mark Twain

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Hardcover:

9781853753695 | Prion Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.95

Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

An entertaining memoir by the author of Crackers and First Hubby reflects on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, reflecting on the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

By Blount

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Hardcover:

9780679400547 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world

Paperback:

9780156006828 | Mariner Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780375403248 | Abridged edition (Random House, June 1, 1998), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world.

Crackers

Product Description: Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult?Crackers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Blount

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9780820320601 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern?

9780345298058 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1982), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A rambunctious, perspicacious and occasionally sad assessment of contemporary American cultural dilution and the crisis in Southern identity

The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

Product Description: George Washington laughing? That the venerable Father of Our Country, the austere and unfailingly honest leader of historical record and legend, had a penchant for tall tales and crafty quips seems unthinkable to most Americans, even today...read more

By Blount (introduced by) and Paul M. Zall (editor)

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9780880015530 | Ecco Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: George Washington laughing?

Are You Old Enough to Read This Book?: Reflections on Midlife

With selections from such notables as Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Carl Sagan, Charles Schulz, and others, this anthology--enhanced with quizzes, polls, and surveys--addresses the rewards and challenges confronting people over age fifty.

By Blount, Deborah H. Deford (editor) and Deborah Defore (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780895779786 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: With selections from such notables as Dr.

The Great Rock 'N' Roll Joke Book

By Blount (introduced by), Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Dave Marsh and Gretchen Shields (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780312168599 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $7.95

Environmental Anthropology

By Blount

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Paperback:

9780536002532 | Ginn Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $72.40

Art Projects Plus

By Blount, R. Howard Bount, Jr. and Martha Venning Webb

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Paperback:

9781568225258 | Instructional Fair, January 1, 1997, cover price $15.99

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

By Blount (introduced by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (introduced by) and Mark Twain

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Hardcover:

9780195101317 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers: Ben Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

By Blount (introduced by) and Paul M. Zall (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780880014953 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: George Washington laughing?

Georgia Boy

By Blount and Erskine Caldwell

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Paperback:

9780820317366 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $24.95

Roy Blount's Books of Southern Humor

A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from such contributors as William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Zora Neal Hurston, and Dave Barry. National ad/promo.

By Blount

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Hardcover:

9780393036954 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1994, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A treasury of contemporary Southern humor includes more than 150 stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and song lyrics from William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Zora Neal Hurston, Dave Barry, and other contributors

Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard

The celebrated Southern humorist presents a new collection of essays, observations, odd thoughts, songs, and crossword puzzles that address such topics as the 'National Geographic' magazine, hyenas, and kissing

By Blount

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Hardcover:

9780517112274, titled "Camel's Are Easy, Comedy's Hard" | Random House Value Pub, October 6, 1993, cover price $4.99

9780679400530 | Villard Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The celebrated Southern humorist presents a new collection of essays, observations, odd thoughts, songs, and crossword puzzles that address such topics as the 'National Geographic' magazine, hyenas, and kissing

First Hubby

Product Description: In his first novel, celebrated humorist Roy Blount Jr. chronicles the life and times of America's first-ever First Husband. Guy Fox first encountered Clementine on the campus of Dingler College. She was running, stark naked, away from an on-campus protest and the police who were pursuing her...read more

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Hardcover:

9780517080832 | Random House Value Pub, March 14, 1992, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In his first novel, celebrated humorist Roy Blount Jr.

9780394574202 | Villard Books, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Guy Fox finds his romance and marriage to Clementine Fox, vice president of the United States, irrevocably altered when the president drops dead and Clementine becomes America's first female president

Paperback:

9780679737421 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1991), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: From Publishers Weekly - Blount, well known as a country humorist with a flair for punning, has written a first novel about a country humorist with a flair for punning.

Now, Where Were We?

This book is a collection of humorist Roy Blount's essays, thoughts, songs, poems and observations.

By Blount

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Hardcover:

9780517079034 | Random House Value Pub, October 22, 1991, cover price $3.99

9780394574196 | Villard Books, February 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This book is a collection of humorist Roy Blount's essays, thoughts, songs, poems and observations.

Paperback:

9780345370327 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of newspaper columns includes 'I Don't Eat Dirt Personally,' 'How to Walk in New York,' 'Filofax Fever,' and other humorous reflections on American life

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394578965 | Random House, March 1, 1989, cover price $11.00

About Three Bricks Shy ... and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever

Product Description: In 1973, the Pittsburgh Steelers were super, but missed the bowl. Blount's portrait of a team poised to dominate the NFL for more than a decade recounts the gridiron accomplishments and off-the-field lives of players, coaches, wives, fans, and owners...read more

By Blount

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Paperback:

9780345364418 | Rev sub edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In 1973, the Pittsburgh Steelers were super, but missed the bowl.

Selected Shorts from Symphony Space: Short Stories Recorded Live at Symphony Space